In a master stroke of inconsideration for hapless passengers trying to
get home late at night South West Trains - the company headed by a bus
driver - has in its wisdom - decided to make things really difficult
at Feltham Station.

At 23.00 to 06.30 it is now closing all entrances and exits at
platform 1 (on the up line). It just so happens that the major bus
station interchange is also situated just outside platform 1. The 285
all night bus runs to/from Healthrow and Kingston and uses that bus
station - the area IS a major bus/rail interchange for the area.

Now with the late night closure of all entrances/exits between
platform 1 and the bus station any arriving or departing passengers
will have to lummox their luggage over the railway footbridge in order
to use the gate at platform 2. This gate effectively dumps them late
at night in the station car park which is not served by any buses at
all. In order to get from platform 2 to the bus station (outside
platform 1) this means a walk of about half a mile around the
industrial zone; or alternatively along an unlit alley-way to the
level crossing - in an area of town more noted for its drunks and
feral youths. That is if anyone knows the way.

However, in yet further inconsideration to its hapless passengers, no
direction signs have been erected to help them. The extrance/exit
gates at platform 1 are simply locked at 23.00 and that's that. And
for the disabled, aged, or less than mobile - this unwarranted closure
is a gross inconvenience.

But then with a trainco headed by an ex-bus driver I suppose that
consideration for the paying public is the least of priorities.

CJB.